Preparation
20 minutes
Cooking
30 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
What to eat tomorrow morning? Let TasteVN guide you on how to make delicious and flavorful rice noodle soup with snakehead fish using a straightforward recipe. Let’s get cooking and prepare this enticing soupy dish for the whole family!
Ingredients for Rice Noodle Soup with Snakehead Fish Serves 4
Snakehead fish 700 gr (1 fish) Pork 200 gr Straw mushrooms 200 gr Green onions 3 stalks Cilantro 1 stalk Shallots 3 bulbs Garlic 2 cloves Turmeric powder 1 teaspoon Cooking oil 120 ml Common spices a little (salt/ sugar/ pepper/ monosodium glutamate/ seasoning powder)
How to choose fresh and delicious ingredients
How to choose fresh snakehead fish
- Snakehead fish is best purchased during the fish harvest season in the lunar months of August – September. When buying, you should prioritize purchasing from familiar places, at markets or reputable food stores like TasteVN or other major supermarkets.
- Additionally, when buying snakehead fish, you should choose fish of medium size, not too big or too small. When touched, the flesh should be firm and elastic, not mushy.
- Do not buy fish with an enlarged anus, as these fish are often dead, about to spoil, or sometimes treated with chemicals.
How to choose and buy rice noodle soup
- Currently, the rice noodle soup you can buy includes 2 types: dry rice noodle soup and fresh rice noodle soup.
- If you buy fresh rice noodle soup as mentioned in the article, you should buy it directly from the production site and consume it on the same day. When buying, you should choose noodles that have a natural fragrant smell of rice, with no strange or musty odors.
- If you buy dry rice noodle soup, you can find it at markets, supermarkets, and convenience stores, with prices ranging from 10,000 – 12,500 VNĐ/500gr (price updated on 29/5/2021).
- When purchasing, you should choose well-packaged rice noodle soup with a clear origin from well-known brands that are trusted by many people.
- In addition, you can showcase your skills and make rice noodle soup at home with the steps shared by TasteVN.
How to prepare Rice flour fish cake with snakehead fish
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Preparing snakehead fish and ingredients
To eliminate the fishy smell and clean the slime of the snakehead fish, after scaling, cleaning the fins and intestines, you should use salt to wash it about 2 times and then use a knife to cut it into small square fillet pieces that are about 2 finger lengths long.
How to clean fish and eliminate the fishy smell- Method 1: Use salt to rub on the fish body, then scale and proceed to clean the fish, rinsing it thoroughly with water.
- Method 2: While washing the fish after cleaning, you can soak it in white vinegar and white wine for about 5 minutes and then rinse with water.
See details: 7 tips to easily and effectively eliminate fishy smell
Purchase straw mushrooms, cut off the stems, then soak in diluted salt water for about 3 minutes and rinse with clean water and let dry.
Only wash the herbs, trim the roots, and chop them finely. Peel the shallots and garlic, then mince them.
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Marinate fish and meat
Marinate the fish with 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder, 1 teaspoon of seasoning, 1/2 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, and 1 teaspoon of pepper for 30 minutes.
For minced pork, place it in a bowl with 1/3 of the chopped shallots, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, and 1 teaspoon of pepper and marinate for 15 minutes.
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Fry the fish
Add 100ml of cooking oil to a pan, then add the fish and fry over medium heat for about 2 minutes until the fish is golden brown on both sides.
Tip: To prevent the fish from having a fishy smell, you should marinate it with turmeric powder before frying! -
Cooking noodle soup
Place a pot on the stove, add 20ml of cooking oil, wait until the oil is hot, then add the remaining minced garlic and minced shallots, stir-fry until the shallots and garlic are golden and fragrant, then add 200 grams of straw mushrooms and stir-fry for about 5 minutes over medium heat.
Once the mushrooms are just cooked, add 2 liters of boiling water, then use a spoon to shape the marinated minced meat into small bite-sized pieces and drop them into the pot.
Cook for another 4 minutes until the meat and mushrooms are cooked through and float to the surface, then add 3 tablespoons of seasoning, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon of salt, and then add the fried fish and noodle soup.
Bring it to a boil again for 15 minutes, then taste and adjust the seasoning to your liking, then turn off the heat.
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Final product
Noodle soup with snakehead fish after cooking will have an enticing aroma with a light yellow broth that is just right. The fish is sweet and fragrant with turmeric, accompanied by the crispy, delicious taste of mushrooms and the rich flavor of meatballs. This will surely be a delicious dish that you will love!
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Finally, we have completed the delicious and attractive snakehead fish rice flour cake soup for the whole family. Hope you will successfully make this dish for your family!
*Source of the recipe and images shared from Facebook: Nguyễn Thanh Trúc
